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USENIX
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Operating system lockup errors can render a computer unusable by preventing the execution other programs. Watchdog timers can be used to recover from a lockup by resetting the pro...
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2000
ACM
: We explore the abstraction of failure transparency in which the operating system provides the illusion of failure-free operation. To provide failure transparency, an operating sy...
ISSRE
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
Recovery systems must save state before a failure occurs to enable the system to recover from the failure. However, recovery will fail if the recovery system saves any state corru...
CSMR
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Recovering the architecture is the first step towards reengineering a software system. Many reverse engineering tools use top-down exploration as a way of providing a visual and ...
SIGCSE
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2002
ACM
Abstract This paper examines the use of a simulator to explore process interaction in Unix. The simulator allows instructors to trace through a variety of programs and to show how ...